Book 4/Chapter 12
Levels of discipline (section 13)
1. According to Augustine, when is the “severe mercy” of sharp discipline necessary?
Another form of discipline (section 14)
1. What other element of discipline, not properly contained within the power of the keys, is important?
2. What sort of occasion would call for this?
Three objectives (section 15)
1. What are the three objectives of fasting?
2. Which of these is public and which private?
Fasting in itself (section 16)
1. Are fasts (including sexual fasts) an end in themselves?
Averting God’s wrath (section 17)
1. What is the hope in public fasts in the face of calamity?
2. Do we need to do this less than the ancients did?
A tempered life (section 18)
1. What should the life of the godly be like overall?
2. Does Calvin allow for modified fasts?
These are the questions for the readings for Wednesday, October 21, and those readings can be found here.